Your editorial denigrates a conservative movement to stop Colorado Senate President John Morse from doing any more harm as purely political. It is a citizen’s duty to try to defend the Constitution, especially when one who has sworn to defend it instead attacks it.

The attacks on the Second Amendment by this senator and his ilk are purely political in nature. None of the gun-control legislation passed will do one whit to stop another Sandy Hook or Columbine. You can even get some of those on the left to admit to this. These bills do nothing more than harass and restrict the rights of law-abiding Colorado citizens, and the left knows this. The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting.

John Morse needs to be recalled, as do Sens. Evie Hudak and Angela Giron and the others who supported this left-wing political agenda with no concern for the loss of their constituents’ rights.

Lloyd Williams, Arvada

This letter was published in the June 22 edition.

Bravo! Thank you, editorial board, for the outstanding editorial blasting the John Morse recall. Recalling politicians over the way they voted on certain bills is idiotic and divisive. If you don’t like how your legislator voted, that’s fine. Organize and defeat the guy or gal at his or her next election. Recalls should be about true abuse of power, or financial graft, or gross misconduct. Voting in a manner that gun enthusiasts don’t like is not a reason.

So, thank you, and I hope Sen. Morse wins handily.

Peter Gross, Denver

This letter was published in the June 22 edition.

The Colorado Springs recall is unfairly characterized in The Denver Post’s editorial. This is not partisan politics. It is a difference of opinion. It is the people asking their neighbors whether enough of them agree with them to make a change in their elected representative. It is democracy.

Anthony T. Accetta, Denver

This letter was published in the June 22 edition.

The Post’s editorial says recall elections should be only for corruption or incompetence. The first two paragraphs then highlight Sen. John Morse’s incompetence. What’s the problem?

Doug Anderson, Littleton

This letter was published online only.

Since when is a legal use of a recall petition an “abuse”? Anytime enough citizens agree that one of their elected representatives no longer really represents them, very specific guidelines are set out under Article 21, Section 1, of our state constitution, for the citizens to seek a remedy. The minimum 25 percent threshold of voters was met, and the signatures were ruled valid, so let the process work. There are no guidelines in the constitution as to why a recall can be sought. If you wish to reserve it only for “corruption, glaring incompetence and other non-partisan faults,” as you state in your editorial, then push for an amendment to the state constitution. Otherwise, it’s called the will of the people. They work for us and we have the right to fire them if enough of us want to.

Doug Stambaugh, Denver

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This week, state Sen. Elbert Guillory from the great state of Louisiana came out of the shadows of the Democratic Party and announced that he was changing his party affiliation to the Republican Party. He discussed how and why he did this. It was a true inspiration — not that he changed his affiliation, but why he changed it. He discussed how a movement started in 1854 and the first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln that gave freedom to the slaves. How Republicans drafted the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. He discussed how President Dwight D. Eisenhower championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 only to be filibustered by the Senate Democrats.

I invite everyone to watch this brave senator’s speech and make up your own mind on his decision. It was not that he switched parties; it was the fact that he had a right to do so as a free citizen.

Thomas Kautz, Littleton

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The redistricting gerrymandering that Bob Ewegen writes about was done in the legislature. Nothing that is done in the legislature is secret, as there are too many people involved for secrecy. Not so with Gov. Bill Ritter’s executive order. Only a few individuals were intimately involved, and secrecy was assured. Read more…

Could you please stop printing articles which call Hillary Clinton the “presumptive” Democratic nominee, just because she is currently leading in certain polls? First of all the term is historically inaccurate, since the person who has led the polling before the primaries for the last several elections has not ended up being the Democratic party’s nominee. Read more…

I hope Mrs. Clinton gets her chance at the white house. It is ironic that once again the black caucus seems poised to keep their own best advocate from succeding. 14 years ago they felt that health care was a minority issue and turned against the President and Mrs. Clinton in what could have been a timely salvation to our present health care crisis. Read more…

What better, more productive thing to do than complain about the President, how his administration handles every minute detail of domestic and international affairs, and how his appointees behave? Never mind that the Democratic Party’s best-loved pets both past and present have done everything (and far worse) than anything of which the current administration has been (wrongly) accused. I, for one, am sick and tired of the incessant, puerile bickering the leftist demagogues are spewing out on a daily basis. Read more…

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